Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez survived four elections, a coup and a recall attempt as he became one of Latin America’s most charismatic, influential and controversial leaders. But on Tuesday, the socialist firebrand lost his long-running battle with cancer. He was 58.

Sleepless, tearful nights continue for Jorge Fernandez, the 50-year-old former University of Miami assistant basketball coach, and he fears he may never fully recover from the lengthy NCAA investigation.

As more Haitian women and girls seek out increasingly deadly ways to end unwanted pregnancies, Haiti calls on health institutions to provide free contraceptives and counseling to those who want it, and prepares to launch a national family planning campaign.

During World War II, on a frigid February night about 100 miles off the coast of Greenland, Storekeeper second class Richard Swanson was clinging desperately to a cargo net that had been draped over the side of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Comanche.

The celebrated dissident journalist told a Cuban-American crowd at Miami’s Freedom Tower that all Cubans, whether exiles or on the island, are a single people and must not allow Cuba’s government to divide them.